if we get the corporate tax down, repatriate dollars into the company, companies like google and starbucks bring it home again. why isn't that being discussed? >> good point. there's a lot of interest in corporate tax reform. we got basically the highest rate in the industrialized world, 35%. that rate should be 25% if ot lower in order to put us at just on a level playing field with the kinds of tax systems that european tax systems have, and that's a -- you're talking about downtown lobbyists and k street, a lot of interest in the business community for that reform. it takes energy of political capital to make those changes. there's a tradeoff in dealing with the cliff and the immediate tax increases on individuals and the capacity to also think more fundamentally. tracy: i hear you. there shouldn't be a tradeoff. we knew it was coming. we saved it for the last minute. it's like people taking laxatives to lose the last five pounds before a wedding. it doesn't work. alex, former ways and means committee, chief economy, it frtrates me, sir, thanks for being here. >> all right, thanks for h